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kkolakowski

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iOS & games developer, solo army of oneminutegames@gamedev.place ๐Ÿ™‚

Also interested in retro computing and various other tech stuff ๐Ÿค“

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craiggrannell, to random
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I do get why companies hate emulators. By the same token, they refuse to allow people to do the right thing and eg buy ROMs/disk images to use how they please. But without the โ€“ at best โ€“ grey area of gaming, many games would be lost and the majority would be inaccessible. (Most companies sell and resell the same limited set of usual suspects.) Gaming is totally different from other media in that regard and so perhaps itโ€™s time we as a whole started looking at different solutions.

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell Emulation IS a solution ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ If companies wants to benefit on it, they're free to do so by offering their own products, like Nintendo is even doing ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

ctietze, to random
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@kkolakowski Am using DevCleaner again today and found a small bug:

I noticed that selecting an item with space bar does toggle the checkbox (nice!) but also unfocuses the list, so that I cannot go through things with the keyboard but need to click into the list again first.

kkolakowski,
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@ctietze Ok, so that's new... ๐Ÿค” I'll take a look. The most recent Sonoma?

kkolakowski,
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@ctietze Ok, I was just able to check: and it works fine for me ๐Ÿค”

I mean:

  • I select an item via spacebar
  • Item is selected and I still have a focus and select more items, as expected.

And I'm on Sonoma 14.3.1

Are there any other circumstances? It appears on all lists or just in some specific section?

christianselig, to random
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Anyone else getting a bunch of "your system ran out of memory" alerts on Sonoma, but then you add them up and they're nowhere near your total RAM?

kkolakowski,
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@christianselig Maybe some system service that is not listed here ๐Ÿ‘€

Check Activity Monitor!

_Davidsmith, to random
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Found a new use for ChatGPT: ancient code spelunking. I was working on the scale for my minute-by-minute rain graph and I remembered that I'd solved this in Check the Weather. Dug around in its ObjC source code and found the section responsible (which git tells me was written in April 2013).

It involved a complicated formula I didn't recognize or understand. So I asked ChatGPT what it meant and it did a surprisingly good job of giving me a starting point to now go and research again.

A response from Chat GPT it summarizes the formula as relating to radar reflectivity and using a logarithmic scale. Full Text: Me: does this formula look familiar "float dbz = 10 * log10(200

kkolakowski,
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@_Davidsmith In this case modern Swift code would be almost exactly the same (I mean the formula) but yeah, it would easily rewrite this part in Swift probably as well ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

This is incredibly useful tool for some cases. It WON'T write the app for us, but can solve a lot of tedious and boring stuff - explaining it along the way! Awesome

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Installed 17.4 just to see what the European experience is like. Default browser flow!

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kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith Wait - so if you want to create your own browser (engine) - even if you'll publish it only in the Apple AppStore - you still need to accept CTF and all that stuff? ๐Ÿ™ƒ

markgurman, to random
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BREAKING NEWS: Apple cancels the Apple Car project after a decade-long, multi-billion effort to rival Tesla. Some employees shifting to Generative AI teams. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai?sref=9hGJlFio

kkolakowski,
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@markgurman And that's a good decision IMO! Apple can still push CarPlay which is probably way more accessible way of getting Apple stuff into cars anyway.

With Apple Car being a thing, I bet that much more motor companies would start to not having them in their cars.

Migueldeicaza, to random
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For the past couple of years, I have been watching TV shows and movies on the iPad.

The worst thing to happen to me was the introduction of multitasking. Since then, whenever there is a slow part in the movie, I would open a social media app and scroll. And then, if I found something good, I would stop the show.

A 2-hour show takes me about six hours to watch over a week or so.

With vision in theater mode, I found myself without any desire to multitask and can now finish shows on time.

kkolakowski,
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@Migueldeicaza What about battery time with Vision when watching movies? Apple says 2.5h (?) which is "barely" just enough to watch a full-time movie, and some of them - won't fit in ๐Ÿ˜…

But maybe video playback gives more battery time?

kkolakowski,
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@Migueldeicaza Yes but if I want to watch movies on the go, 2.5h is really not that great ๐Ÿ˜‰ I don't have outlets everywhere, and it's definitely a limiting factor.

krzyzanowskim, to random
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    kkolakowski,
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    @krzyzanowskim It's a weekend, come on, LLMs are resting now ๐Ÿ˜…

    kkolakowski, to macos
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    Is it just me that I use built-in basically all the time? It's set to "plain" text mode and I use to various kind of notes and temporary text, except code. I would love some improvements for this app in the future!

    kkolakowski,
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    @jkornat I would love multi-line editing in TextEdit (I get used to it badly in Xcode!)

    And maybe some light syntax highlighting. And basically... that's it? ๐Ÿค” I would be happy!

    daringfireball, to random
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    Apple Sports and Lock Screen Live Activities
    https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/02/22/live-activities-apple-sports

    kkolakowski,
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    @daringfireball To be honest I think we need more Apple apps to be decoupled from default iOS install, not less.

    Not everyone really needs a Journal or Sports and that would also allow Apple to update them more often.

    stroughtonsmith, to random
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    We're back to this again.

    /It is not the user's fault that SpringBoard craps up your launcher with stale app thumbnails going back to the dawn of history./

    This is and has always been Apple's fault, and itโ€™s beyond silly to complain that users are doing the wrong thing. They're not.

    It's Apple's decision to clutter the launcher, to keep stale thumbnails for months and years, and to tie discarding thumbnails to force-quitting instead of a lighter abstraction. Bad UI

    https://gizmodo.com/stop-closing-your-iphone-s-background-apps-1851264816

    kkolakowski,
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    @stroughtonsmith Agree, although I always have anxiety when people doing that nearby ๐Ÿ˜…

    When I talked with my sister-in-law about it, she said that she's aware that she is closing the apps, but she simply wants to have ORDER in her task switcher - which makes perfect sense, and confirms what you said ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

    It should be a simple fix:

    • swiping up apps shouldn't close it, just remove from the list
    • another way to "force quit" apps, tap & hold?
    • if app hangs, it should present some UI/indicator
    simonbs, to random
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    Spent some time today redesigning TextCorrect, my app that uses OpenAI to correct texts and then highlights the differences between the original text and the corrected text. I think this design refresh makes the app way more coherent.

    The macOS app has received to configure a global hotkey that brings the app to the foreground in order to quickly correct a text.

    And lastly, both apps now have two Shortcuts actions: Correct Text and Diff Text ๐Ÿ˜€

    Screenshot of TextCorrect running on macOS.

    kkolakowski,
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    @simonbs One thing I would update is to add strikethrough to changed parts, at least as an option

    kkolakowski,
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    @simonbs Looks great! ๐Ÿ˜ Improves readability of the changes IMO!

    dimillian, to random
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    Building Medium iOS on the M3 Max, cold build. 45 seconds. On M1 Pro it was around 2 minutes.

    kkolakowski,
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    @dimillian Is it "full" M3 Max? I mean this with 4+12 cores?

    kkolakowski,
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    @dimillian Oh, so the "binnedโ€ one, quite impressive tbh! And you had "binned" M1 Pro as well? Or the full 2+8 core version?

    dimillian, to random
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    Show me your menu bar! I strive to make mine as informative and as small as possible.

    kkolakowski,
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    @dimillian FYI: From some time you can actually REMOVE this Figma icon (I really never had any use to it but it was always present ๐Ÿ˜ฌ)

    kkolakowski,
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    @dimillian I like to keep mine as tidy as possible as well! Only stuff I use. From left:

    • 1Password, some time ago global keyboard shortcut was broken ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
    • PasteBot by @tapbots, I canโ€™t live without multi-clipboard and I use this icon for snippets sometimes
    • Tim time tracker, really nice & simple but Mac only sadly
    • Time Machine
    • iStats of course, just essentials here
    • Volume icon mostly to know what output is used and switching them
    • (standard items)
    • I like to know what day is
    dimillian, to random
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    Interestingly, the 14" M3 Macbook scaled resolution is a bit higher, and it definitely feels way nicer than the previous M1 14" Macbook Pro.

    kkolakowski,
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    @dimillian Hmm ๐Ÿค” I have M1 Pro MBP 14โ€™โ€™ and it's the same:

    kkolakowski,
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    @dimillian This I guess was on old non-notch 13 MBP, they slightly expanded the screen while maintaining the same DPI, hence this weird resolution.

    BasicAppleGuy, to random
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    visionOS meets iOS 6.

    kkolakowski,
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    @BasicAppleGuy I love it! ๐Ÿ˜

    It would've been glorious ๐Ÿค”

    dimillian, to random
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    Mackup is such a lifesaver when switching Mac. I just install the apps I want and the preferences are already there. It took me under an hour to have the computer exactly as I wanted.

    https://github.com/lra/mackup

    kkolakowski,
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    @dimillian Ok, that makes sense - I do similar โ€žreset" of my Mac every few Macs - so once per decade or so, it might be handy then ๐Ÿ˜…

    Anyway - thanks for the tool!

    simonbs, to random
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    Ideas are rarely new, but execution can be.

    kkolakowski,
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    @simonbs This is exactly my case with the app I'm making in the background for some time now ๐Ÿค“

    I know other solutions exists, but I never liked them so I'm making it on my own, better (by my judgement)!

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